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Thursday, 26 May 2016

You can use the sketch, photo or combine the two-see our graphic below.

This week I really liked the sweet flowers on the cake so used this as my starting point. Then I did a CAS version of the sketch using embossed lines as my panel. Quite unusual for me to combine both the sketch and the photo but I enjoyed making this and do like how it turned out:

Our Guest Designer for April is the very talented Cris Check out her Flickr account here and you will love what you see!

Don't forget to pop over to our main blog here and see what the DT have created to inspire you. I am looking forward to what you create.

You can use any of these words to inspire you or perhaps the whole phrase. You might want to go with flowers,wild, weeds or perhaps use the whole phrase looking at how the hard times don't get in the way of the beauty in your life.

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

We have a new challenge starting at The Card Concept. Our photo is very pretty and I was inspired by by the pink flowers in the tea cup and the touches of gold in the photo.

I made this 'Clean and Simple' card:

Here is our photo:

I heat embossed this flower on vellum and then coloured it using copics. I felt the flower expressed the delicate look of the tea cup. The gold strip was added as a nod to the gold picture frame.

You can create a card in any style you want and you can check out these styles here

This month our Guest Designer is the very talented Becca. She will be creating mixed media cards for us. Becca's blog, The Damsel of Distress, will be known by many of you but if not, pop over there and you will be inspired.

Saturday, 21 May 2016

Before I tell you about my post today I wanted to let you all know that I have not been visiting many of your blogs as much as I do normally and I am sorry for this. My health was poorly before my Birthday. I got away but not in the best health and have come home to not being so great. . I am trying to keep up with my DT comments. But rest assured as soon as I am more myself I will visit you all as normal. I do feel bad as you all threw me a party and your cards are amazing. I will return!

At Inkspirational this week we have our photo challenge for you. I was so inspired by this weeks photo-the graphic look and the amazing colours. Naturally I wanted to use purple and decided to mix it in with the turquoise. Also using the graphic lines from the photo.This is what I came up with:

Here is the photo:

The more I looked at my card, the more I realised it looked familiar to me. I looked through my pinterest board and realised I had subconsciously CASEd this card by Ardyth. So a huge thank you for the inspiration Arydth!

Our Design Team have all come up with amazing projects-take a look here and then get inky!

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Ready for a new challenge at Time Out Challenges? This week is our 'Inspired by Words' challenge and our words are:'May All your weeds be wild flowers'
You can be inspired by just one of these words or by the whole phrase. I went with 'flowers' and created this card:

I do love the summery feel to this card.

This challenge is sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps. The winner of this challenge will get a £15 evoucher to spend in their fabulous store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Julia. Her blog is so inspiring, take a look here-you will see what I mean!

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

I was inspired by the yellow and black and just the fact the photo made me want to smile:

Here is our photo:

Originally I had made this card for this challenge but I am on the Clean and Simple DT and all these dots made this card not a 'true' CAS card so I CASEd myself and came up with this version. This version made my CAS loving heart happier! The orange'smile' is heart embossed and the rest of it is made with stitched dies.

Remember you can create you card in any style or combine styles.

This month our Guest Designer is the very talented Becca. She will be creating mixed media cards for us. Becca's blog, The Damsel of Distress, will be known by many of you but if not, pop over there and you will be inspired.

I will enter this into the CAS Mix Up Challenge-heat embossing (my sentiment), stamping and stitched die

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Jane, who is now running this blog, emailed me a few weeks ago and asked me if I would like to join the team. Naturally I said yes! It is a CAS challenge, so right up my street. The DT is amazing and have made me feel very welcome.

I actually start on 22nd May when it is our 2nd Birthday. Lots going on, so keep your eyes open and don't forget to visit us then.

I hope I will be able to inspire you all to join in this fabulous challenge and feel very honoured to be part of this team.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Time to take some TIME OUT and play along at our CASE challenge at Time Out.

For this challenge we have an amazing card for you to CASE by Kay Miller. Her blog My Joyful Moments is full of creative and inspiring cards. I urge you to visit it and I know you will come away ready to take some Time Out to get inky!

CASE means 'copy and share everything'. Basically have a look at Kay's card and see what it inspires you to make and get straight to it!

Here is my CASE:

I loved everything about Kay's card and have almost just repeated it! I stamped the splashes behind the frame. Cut flowers and leaf dies and just arranged them slightly differently. I liked the grey Kay used but decided to use more pinks and purples and to keep to just a touch of grey. This quite a different card for me-layers and dies, but I have to say I loved making it and really like how it turned out.

Here is Kay's card:

The very talented Marlena is our Guest Designer for this challenge. Marlena plays in nearly all our challenges and every entry is a delight to see. Her creativity is amazing. Take a look at her blog here and you will see what I mean!